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The question came up.  How do I partition an external hard drive?  This is a good thing to know especially if your external drive dies and you replace the drive inside the case with a new one.  Or if you just want to break that huge new drive into seperate logical drives.  This way you’ll [...]

Hard drives have come a long way.  New Hard Drives won’t be drives at all but big blocks of memory that will replace your mechanical hard drive all together.  Mechanical Hard Drives eventually fail.  Why?  Because they are mechanical.  They have a motor, moving heads, and spinning platters.  The new devices won’t have any moving [...]

With all the mal-ware out there today you never know when you’re going to have to re-do your computer.  Reformat your hard drive and re-install Windows.  It happens all the time and you end up loosing all your pictures and music along with any documents and files you may have stored in personal folders.  Do [...]

Excellent Free Backup Software! Play it safe and make it a habit to make backups. This software does it all for you and makes it easy. Pictures, Music, Documents, programs!   And an external hard drive is an excellent way to backup all your stuff.  All the computer stores have a good selection of reasonably priced external [...]